Educational toy.



A. C. BAUMANN.

EDUCATIONAL TOY.

APPLICATION FIKLED MAR. 22, 1915.

1,168,274, Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

242 /Z /6 ZO kw-,g/ |22 tion and rre ARTHUR C. BAUMANN,

OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

EDUCATIONAL TOY.

Application filed March 22,

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, .ARTHUR C. BAUMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Educational Toys; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in tov apparatus, particularly that class wherein is provided a frame and a plurality of blocks movable in said frame to form words.

The object of tl' e present invention resides in the provision of a tov apparatus provide with plurality of members which may be moved around to form words.

A more specific object resides in the provision of such an apparatus wherein the word forming memoers may be arranged in the shape of a letter, including the usual superscription and so forth.

Vith the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention resides more particularly in the novelacombination form arrangement of parts more fully than emphasized, and pointed out in the apended claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which: Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved toy apparatus. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 3-8 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one o the letter blocks.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing, the improved' toy apparatus comprises a rectangular base frame formed of the side and end bars 5 and 6 respectively. Arranged at the upper portion of the frame is a board or plate 7 corresponding to the superscription of a letter. This board is provided at one side with a longitudinal slot 8 directed at its inner end downwardly as at 9. The other side of the plate is provided with a parallel pair of slots 10, these slots communicating with a slot 11 disposed at right angles thereto, and extended to the inner edge of the plate. Disposed below the plate are a series of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 191.6.

1915. Serial No. 16,135.

strips 12, each having one end secured on the left hand side 5 of the frame, and terminating in spaced relation to the other side ofthe frame. Each of these strips are spaced a certain distance from each other, and the topmost strip is spaced from the Secured at the top and bottom of the frame are a pair of strips 13, and secured on the left hand side ofthe frame bewith side of the frame filling out the front of the aratus so that it presents substantially' with channels 2PP a plane surface provided formed by the various slots of the superscription plate 7 and the spaces between the strips 12. T 0 provide a means for supporting and holding in place the otherwise free ends of the strips 12, blocks 16 are secured on the strips 13, anda bar 17 has its ends secured to this block, and extends over the ends of the strips, being spaced there-above. Suitable bolt members are passe through the strips, and engaged in the ends of the strips. Thus such strips are held in a manner which will not interfere with the letter-blocks 19, which are slidably held in these channels. The central portion of the bar 17 is strengthened by a brace 20 secured thereto and to a block 21 on the frame. Each of the letter blocks 19 is of substantially cylindrical shape and of greater diameter than the width of the channels. Each block is provided with an annular groove 22, adapted to receive the side edges of the strips 12 or the sides of the plate 7 adjacent the channels therein whereby the letter-blocks are slidably held in the channels. The bottoms of the letter-blocks are preferably tapered at 23, and the top of each block has burned or otherwise inscribed thereon a letter or other symbol 24C. It is observed that by the provision of the holding bolts 18 of the blocks may pass freely at the right hand end of the strip 12. To provide a means for holding the blocks against displacement at the ends of the strips, and at the same time to facilitate the passage of said blocks from one strip to another or to plate 7, a strip 25 is secured to the members 15, and is substantially the width of the annular groove 22, the distance between the ends of the strips 12 and sai strip 25 being substantially the width of the said channels. Thus, in operation, the

plurality of spacer dao blocks may be freel various channels and so that a child su perscri ption. vided str1 ps.

spaced strips secured toene frame, and'terminatlng short of Copies of this patent may be y moved about in the said other side, said plate being provided withslots openingatY the inner edge thereof,

said slots, and the spaces between `and between the free ends of the the adjacent side forming channels and vletter-blocks' slidably held in said channels.

In t .A apparatus, a yframe, spacedstrps each secured at one end to one side of the frame, andk havingl its the strips,

other end spaced from the vother side ofthe i from,

he ends of thestrips.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signa-l Witnesses:

GEORGE A. DREW, W. BYRNES.

obtained for Vfive cents each, by addressing the i Commissioner o'frIatencs,v

'L Washington, D. C.

strips and. 

